Knife crime statisticsBerman, GavinBerman G. Knife Crime Statistics - Standard Note: SN/SG/4304. London: House of Commons; 2012.
LONDON, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Knife crime reached an all-time high in Britain in 2018, with its capital the hardest hit as people described London's blade offences as a "disease", official figures revealed Thursday. The British Office for National Statistics said that 14,725 knife crimes, ...
LONDON, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Knife crime reached an all-time high in Britain in 2018, with its capital the hardest hit as people described London's blade offences as a "disease", official figures revealed Thursday. The British Office for National Statistics said that 14,725 knife crimes, ...
In the UK knife crime includes any incident involving a bladed instrument. The rate of this type of crime has been steadily increasing over the past five years, according to the Office for National Statistics. In the first six months of this year, 248 people were killed with a knife in En...
figure is more than three times that of Greater Manchester (2,294) and the West Midlands (2,303), the areas with the next biggest totals.The statistics have been revealed in the new British Crime Survey which for the first time includes a breakdown of serious violent offences involving ...
Knife crimes fell after 2009, but since 2014 there has been a gradual rise, according to official statistics. Justice minister Chris Philp said the government was recruiting 20,000 more police officers and was extending stop-and-search powers and ensuring the most violent offenders are kept in ...
The introduction of the ‘knife-enabled’ feature code in 2001 fundamentally changed the way knife-enabled crimes were categorised and reported. This ultimately led to a problematic public definition of ‘knife crime’ as we understand it today...
If we were to use a legal definition of adulthood beginning at age 18, statistics would suggest sharp instrument assault is predominantly an adult problem. Available recorded crime rates show that 10–17 year olds represent around one in five of knife crime perpetrators (Allen & Audickas, ...
The new statistics blow apart police and Government claims that knife crime rates have barely changed in ten years. Their figures ONLY include stabbings where victims are so badly hurt they need hospital treatment - NOT the hundreds of cases of people too scared to go to the cops or a doc...
The number of knife crimes in England rose to 48,341 in the year to April 2024, from 27,667 in the year to April 2014, according for the Office for National Statistics. More than a quarter of the incidents took place in London. ...